Am I the only one who found Labyrinth's Junk Lady more disturbing than the ball room scene?

Also, the entirety of Watcher in the Woods creeped me right the fuck out. Thank you for the nightmares Disney.

I was about to contend that Prime's death should be #1, then I realized a) these are really in no order being a continuation of a prior list and 2) Artax's death IS pretty rough. I still have troubles watching that scene to this day, which is a shame because the rest of the movie is amazing. (The book is even more so, to the point of making the movie look like crap, but still amazing!)

"See what I mean, Eddie! When I killed your brother, I talked... just... like... this!"

Yeah, that scared the crappy outta me.

ohhh I forgot about Superman 3 until I saw that again. Yeah it was definitely scary watching her transformation, but once you see her walk...not too bad.

BTW, Superman 3 had potential. I heard it was supposed to be Lex Luthor and Brainiac.

Thirteen horses were hurt in the making of the Never Ending Story.

"Watership Down" and "When the Wind Blows;" two of the most depressing animated films ever put to celluloid. Damn you Britain. You really are a lot of miserable bastards.

Am I the only one who used to get scared shitless as a kid by those birds in Labyrinth? The ones that sing and throw their heads around? I thought they were way creepier than anything else in the movie.

now thats a list! :applause:

I wasn't so scared of the flying monkeys in Wizard of Oz. But the part that really freaked me out in that movie was after Dorothy had been taken to the Witch's castle, and the Witch flipped over that giant hourglass full of red sand and told Dorothy she would die when the sand ran out. And then Dorothy started vainly trying flip the thing back over. I was probably about six the first time I saw that, and I was struck by the idea that any one being (i.e. the Witch) who could have the power to do that - who could just declare that so-and-so was going to die, and probaly would - that was more frightening to me than airborne primates.

I would add the entire movie "The Plague Dogs" to the list.

I think you could have given two or three more slots to Return to Oz scenes, easily.

Some of them didn't even involve implicit maiming.

I will forever be traumatized by the cartoon version of "The Velveteen Rabbit". Being a fairly lonely child I loved my stuffed animals like no other. So here comes this cute cartoon about a boy and his stuffed rabbit. I'm hugging my favorite stuffed animal enjoying the movie. The boy eventually gets deathly sill, but he has his beloved bunny with him and he eventually recovers. So far in my young mind (I was probably around 4 when I saw it) this is the best movie. Then the doctor declares that in order to sanitize the house and make sure there isn't a relapse...they have to burn all of his toys. The parents give the boy a new rabbit and he abandons his best friend in a bonfire. As the rabbit is being consumed by the flames he watches the boy forget about him and walk away.

I eventually forgot everything about the movie/book (even the title); except for that scene which is forever etched into my memories. For years after that I was afraid to even touch any of my stuffed animals when I was sick in bed out of fear that I would be forced to burn them.

Bravo on making Neverending Story #1. That's one that sticks with just about anyone who's seen it, nerd or not, to this day. My wife (who is about as non-nerdy as they come) still can't watch it after 25 years.

Oh geeze, I had forgotten the horror of that scene from Superman 3. I had nightmares for a week after that, though looking at the scene today I wonder what was so damn freaky...

Mufasa's death has nothing on the death of Little Foot's mom's death from The Land Before Time. Sure Mufasa went out all hero like saving his kid from a stampede, but Little Foot's mom? She went out FIGHTING A FUCKING T-REX! And no cut to reaction shot death like Mufasa either. Oh no, we got to see the big gnarly bites Sharp Tooth took out of her hide.


Mufasa: Death by deer.

Little Foot's Mom: Death by kicking a T-Rex's ass.

Artax noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

I watched the Lion King at least a hundred times as a child, and every time I hoped that THIS TIME it might be different, and Mufasa wouldn't be dead.

clearly no one here saw 'Grave of the Fireflies':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbEyjUsWKZA

which is in fact the most depressing animated movie ever made.

I am really angry no one decided to even mention Legend on this list. Isn't it a rule that Tim Curry has to be on any list of "Disturbing Moments in Kids Movies"? Hell, if you're hard up just grab a scene from Annie. He'll have a usable scene in any kids movie he's in.

I'm sure you could find something on The Wild Thornberries too if you looked hard enough. But seriously LEGEND!

am I the only one to think that Wheelers are inspiration of 90% of all power ranger cannon fodder?

Oh and thanks for bringing up some bad childhood moments today. excuse me while i piss my self in a corner

I heartily vouch for the Cyborg scene in Superman III. Took me years to get over the trauma of that. I was only about 3 years old when I saw it.

Return to oz was so scary that as a child I completely repressed it after seeing it. The only memories that remained were hazy images I thought I had conjured in nightmares. Then I rediscovered it as a teen after seeing it on the shelf at the video store and swearing I had made that movie up in my head. Needless to say everything came flooding back in a rush of traumatic scenes from the film, like a forty year old guy who suddenly remembers his priest diddled him when he was an altar boy.

You know, we all bitch about the restrictions they used to place on children's programing, but considering all this slipped by, I shudder to to think what would've shown up if someone wasn't in place to reign the filmmakers in.

i'm 26 years old, and i STILL sniffle a bit when i have to watch optimus die . .

ps: how did that only get 6th place? ;_;

What's going on with Judge Doom? I mean, I know he got elected by bribing voters. But still. He executes one of his constituents with no trial, just to show off his new Dip.

Does Toontown run under the Judge Dredd system? How is he able to do stuff like that an not be disbarred? Or whatever you do to an elected judge.

The pink elephants noooooooooooo

I gotta admit though Judge Doom would have terrified me as a kid, but I only watched it for the first time a couple of years back. Awesome though.

I loved Superman III for that scene alone. It pretty much began my love of body horror which was fully realised in the move Tetsuo:Iron Man.

It's a shame the scene hasn't held up as I got older. I saw the movie a couple of months ago and it was pretty lame.

Suggestion for round three: drunk skeleton guard from The Last Unicorn. I lost it and hid behind a couch everytime he screamed "UNICORN!" to King Haggard once he realized what was before him.

The harpy killing Momma Fortuna also was pretty damn scary in that film too.

On the topic of Don Bluth movies "All Dogs Go To Heaven" is really important to bring up. As if Burt Reynolds singing wasn't traumatic enough, there are a handful of fucked up scenes in that movie. The main character dies twice, and not in pretty ways. First he is boozed up by his partner/enemy, run down by a car and knocked into a river... Then later after coming back to life he has to decide whether to rescue a little girl or the pocket watch thats keeping him alive. Obviously going for the girl we are forced to watch him basically seize to death underwater as his "life watch" stops ticking.

And the nightmare scene where he goes to dog hell... scary stuff. Also Charles Nelson Reilly.

"When I killed your brother I talked JUST...LIKE...THIIIIIIIIIIIIS!"

And then KNIVES COME OUT OF HIS EYES.

Glad it made it onto the list, and I adore Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, but seriously, fuck that scene. Fuck it in its knivey eyes.

What really weirds me out about Labyrinth, in hindsight, is that Bowie was the second choice for the Goblin King... they originally wanted Michael Jackson. We would have had a very, very different movie. Bowie made it a classic and I shudder to think of what it might have been without him.

And the little fire guys still give me the willies when they take off their heads.

I think you missed the most disturbing one of all time...

*clears throat*

AND THEY DON'T SEEM TO BE SHOWING, ANY SIGNS THAT THEY ARE SLOWING!

What about HALLOWEEN IS GRINCH NIGHT? Anybody else remember that creepy song with the Dr. Suess visuals? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S60wWPYfaks&feature=PlayList&p=5C71CEFDF77DAC62&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=19

Was The Last Unicorn on the first list, because that movie has scenes that gave me nightmares for YEARS! At the age of four it made me realize mortality. You have Harpies eating people, skeletons talking about "remembering" what wine tastes like, and a unicorn being turned into a human saying "I can feel this body dying all around me"...*shudders*

I highly recommend the KinderTrauma site to anyone wanting to relive these (and more) disturbing scenes in childrens movies. Love that site.

Watership Down FTW

The helping hands in Labyrinth always scared the hell out of me.

Another great, horrible list. You've covered pretty much everything I can think of by now, but there HAS to be a future list of The Ten Creepiest Moments In ET. Maybe even 20.

when i saw this list i figured Artax death and something from return to oz would be in the top five. though surprised primes death did not crack the top five.given how it had kids so upset. another list could just have dark crystal , Laberinth and return to oz moments. alone. for those three films are real messed up way to mess up kids. as for the pink elephants think after kids saw them they swore off booze for fear of seeing the pink elephants again.

Seriously no Witches from 1990? Turn children into rats and try to stomp them to death with the amazingly loud thud of those dark boots on the carpeted marble as they barely miss time and time again? Not to mention the revelation scene when we find out what they really look like. Slept with my dog in the doghouse after watching that movie.

O and on another note...the horse drowning sequence was bad. But nothing freaked me out as a kid in that movie like Gmork. *shiver*

Yes. Artax. I had forgotten it because the whole scene was so awful and confusing to me as a kid. Horses just don't die in stories. Maybe they do if it's Black Beauty or the Black Stallion, where the story's about the horse. But in my young experience, the horse never dies.

I can't watch the clip because I'd probably cry again.

I remember watching Labyrinth and becoming completely encompassed in the ballroom scene. I'm not sure I'd classify it as 'disturbing', but it was certainly very well made!!

Aaaah for the good ol days when Hollywood didn't talk down to kids with sugar coated crap. Aside from Coraline I can't think of a single kids movie from the past decade that would qualify for this list.

I had managed not to remember half of this list, especially the Artax death scene... now I feel I can start the day off rightly with horror and traumatic flashbacks.

Although I always thought the wheelers were incredibly awesome and not entirely scary. Weeks after seeing that movie as a kid I wanted to have wheels for feet.

The worst thing about Lion King to me was the realization that the Hyenas eat Mufasa's body... Eating anything that talks creeps me the hell out...

I'd forgotten all about the cyborg transformation in Superman III! That gave me nightmares when I was a kid.

Just watched Watership Down last weekend (was triggered by the last list), and I seriously cannot believe how freaking gory that cartoon was. Netflix has it listed under "Children and Family" (however Plague Dogs is listed under Animation for Adults, which is where it should probably belong--I haven't seen it, but I've heard about it). Rabbits got their throats ripped out in bloody detail. I'm over 30 and I just sat there with huge eyes wondering how this could ever be thought to be meant for kids.

The most disturbing Neverending Story for me came 20 years after I saw the movie. At one of the comic conventions in Orlando, at the celebrity signing area was Atreyu -- who had grown up to be a dour, goth-influenced 30-something with black fingernails and emo hair. I would never have guessed who he was had he not had Atreyu's pictured taped to the front of his table. No one approached him for an autograph.

SO no-one remembers that scene in Willow in which they get turned into PIGS? Oh god, the crude (by todays standards) special effects only added to the sheer horror I felt whilst watching that.

Oh and speaking of creepy transformation scenes, Rohl Dahls "the witches" comes to mind. OH GOD.

1. I HATED everything about "The Neverending Story". The theme song. Both protagonists. The creatures. The princess. EVERYTHING about that move literally made me physically ill. I still can't watch it to this day, and I have no idea how anyone ever gets through it. (I feel the exact same way about "The Black Stallion").
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2. I was a teenager when "Transformers the Movie" hit theaters, and I went to see it with my best friend. We were the only teenagers in the place. Everyone else was an adult with their young children.
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We thought it was hilarious watching the adults react to this "kid's movie" having death, dismemberment, and swearing. A few parents even left with their kids after hearing the swearing or even as early as the scene where Megatron kills the downed Ratchet in cold blood (er... cold oil).
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We both believed we heard at least two curse words in the movie during its theater run. The first was the obvious one, when Ultra Magnus was trying to open the Matrix and said "goddammit! Open!" but the other, which was never seen again after the theatrical run, was when Jazz and Spike are being drawn into Unicron, and Jazz is calling for help. He says, "Roger me, Wilco me, ANYTHING! Oh shit! We're gonna die!"
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Others swear they heard this version in theaters, but it may well have been our overactive teenage brains making us remember it wrong. Either way, that part is not in any DVD or VHS version I've ever seen.
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And the animated flick from 1986 is STILL better than the abortion made by Michael Bay in the 21st century.

Man kids these days have it easy. It's just not right. These movies made you a productive member of society, and made you sleep with your parents until you were 16. what's the world coming to when Children Movies coddle to children?

I agree with the entire list as is. That said, there's a lot of material out there (listed here in comments) that definitely qualify for "honorable mentions".

I had to beg my parents to leave the theater when the horse died in the Neverending Story. My best friend who was with us at the time clowned me for years on that. At least I didn't waste to much of my parents money, it was the second half of a double feature (anyone remember those?)

Gods, Watership down. I saw it with the rest of my elementary school class on one of those "it's almost the holidays so just keep them occupied" days. I'm sure that the teachers saw "cartoon bunnies" and didn't think much further about it. It's funny now considering that the teachers pretty much had to call all the parents to pick up sobbing kids that were traumatized by hawks eating cute little bunnies, but then? I wanted to throw out that book I had seen on my mother's shelf and hide.

Watcher in the woods is fantastic!!! Scary and creepy...I work with school age kids and they love to watch it too, however it scares the crap out of them...good times

"Dumbo" upsets me much more as an adult than it ever did as a child. The part directly preceding the pink elephant scene is the most fucked up thing in the film: Dumbo is dressed up like a clown and forced to jump off a high burning building, and he is utterly terrified. Afterwards, he gets to go see his mom, but she is locked in a tiny cage, and that "Baby Mine" song plays, which even just thinking about makes me want to cry. THEN all the clowns are laughing and saying they want Dumbo to jump off higher and higher buildings, and he is miserable and despondent and wants to die....then he trips balls with the pink elephants. WHAT THE FUCK, DISNEY. Fuck that movie. I can't even handle it.

Does no one remember THE BRAVE LITTLE TOASTER???? That movie scared the crap out of me and possibly creeps me out more now as an adult. The evil air conditioner?? The lamp trying to get power in the middle of a thunderstorm and GETTING STRUCK BY LIGHTNING so his bulb is all burnt and broken for most of the remaining film?? The totally messed up song the cars in the junkyard sing as they're waiting for their doom of being crushed into cubes? THE TOASTED JAMMING HIMSELF INTO THE GEARS OF THE CRUSHING MACHINE TO SAVE HIS FORMER OWNER FROM ALSO BEING CRUSHED INTO A CUBE????

Srsly, wtf. Who thought this was a good idea for a movie period, much less a kids movie!!!!

E.T. in the ditch doesn't make the list? I can't even go to the Cape Canaveral without wanting to fist fight astronauts.

I.........KILLED...............MUFASaaaaaaaaaa

God, i remember going to the movie theater with my little brother and our two closest cousins to watch the Transformers premiere in my country... I clearly remember the stunned silence that befell inside that place after the agonizing face that Prowl made after being shot to death and OH MY GOD... Ratchet, Brawn (who we all hated) and.. and Ironhide getting shot pont-blank in the head... and then Arcee carrying the corpses of Wheeljack and Windcharger... and then the ABSOLUTE horror of watching Optimus dying after handing ALL of the decepticons their respective asses, all because that glory hog Hot Rod trying to "help" him... and to top it all the fraggin' junkions ressurect that failure of a leader Ultra Magnus by aplying some sort of "rise and shine" liquid... damn it! It's being 24 years since that day, and i still HATE that damn wuss Hot Rod and his sycophant follower Ultra Magnus...

Artax's death was even sadder in the book because he could speak. I was more traumatized by the Gmork; damn evil wolf-like puppet with glowing eyes!

The Artax scene was depressing, but not nearly as depressing as the big rock creature's little monologue about how he's going to let the Nothing take over because he couldn't save his friends. Seeing such a big, seemingly powerful creature defeated like that is an upsetting experience for an 8 year old kid.
And The Witches also needs a place, can't believe I forgot that.

Oh God. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? I still can't watch the scene where he dips the show in the acid slowly. I cried every time I saw that part when I was a kid.

I would also recommend a more recent film for the list: Coraline.

The first time I saw Bowie dancing with Connelley in ballroom scene, I realized that I was 100% heterosexual.

Yes, it's a crappy movie. Yes, few people even know about it anymore. But the puppet-transformation scene in "Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night" continues to remain the most disturbing moment in my childhood life:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCLhGj-DQ_o#t=01m20s

Artax dying? More sad than disturbing. Rabbits clawing each other to pieces? Certainly terrifying. But a boy turning into a creepy wooden puppet while a twisted man cackles evilly? It buried into my sub-conscience and tortured my dreams for years to come, Filmation SFX and all.

It is mental child rape, plain and simple.

What about The Dark Crystal? Pupets draining the life force from other pupets, creepy vulture-men and the hag with one eye?

A shameful confession. I am a 26 year old horror film junkie, I will watch anything with a horror theme or impressive gore. Yet I will not watch Labyrinth with the lights out or at night because the nightmares are beyond awful. I didn't think I had a problem with the puppets until I tried watching this again a couple of weeks ago. I had to shut it off once she enters the world of the Goblin King, the puppets freak me the fuck out. I saw this when I was little and have blocked out most of it due to the trauma inflicted.

I genuinely consider Poltergeist to be, at the least, a family film. There is a scene involving a clown which made me want to cry with the horrifying build-up followed by the actual clown attack.

I fucking knew the clown was goin to attack, so why the fuck didn't it do it already?

I'm pretty sure it looks more like 15 year old Jennifer Connolly wants on David Bowie's dick more than anything. Gogo perv directors! "Yeah Jen, we really need you to make it look like The Goblin King is the hottest thing you've evar seen" "Ok"

When I played Shadow of the Colossus, that last level when the horse (Agro, correct?) doesn't make the jump across the bridge caused repressed memories of Artax's death to be released in a traumatic flash.

The Rats of NIMH is such an amazing movie. It makes me cringe when I think how far animation has devolved since then. Compare Mrs. Brisby's heartbreaking facial expressions to the bullshit anime emotion shown in any anime these days. I don't care how many times you scream your dead loved one's name, stupid anime character, I won't feel even an inkling of the emotion I just felt watching that NIMH clip.

Oh GOD DAMN YOU for that preview picture. *goes to calm herself*

that song from "Brave little Toaster" in the junkyard was creepy. All those cars begging to die... Pretty dark for a movie where one of the main characters is a talking blanket. Toaster also had that guy who butchered appliances and dressed like a clown.

Good list. Say, how about for the next list, add 'The Yellow Submarine'(1968). Man, great movie but it has a hand full of a freaky and disturbing things on there. The Blue Meanies are especially scary! The way they froze those people in Pepperland was a bit creepy.

Number 1 should have been when the Pikachu and his clone fought in the Pokemon Moive with Mewtwo how that didn't even make the list is beyond me.

God I still fucking weep everytime I watch The Neverending Story, god just so heartbreaking. Plus last week had I too watch one of my pets die, took like nine fucking hours...jesus...okay well I'm going to try and drink away the sadness...goddamn.

Number 1 should have been when Pikach and his clone fought in the Pokemon Movie with Mewtwo how this didn't even make the list is beyond me

What about Willy Wonka? That movie creeped me out as a kid. Most people cite the boat ride as the most disturbing thing but the child abuse is what got to me. Sure all those kids were jerks but they were still kids and I thought Willy Wonka killed off all the ones who were bad. They just disappear and you don't know what happens to them. The scene with the fans and the the bubbles was terrifying! They were gonna get chopped up into to bits for sneaking soda. How screwed up is that?

Wonka just seemed like the type of guy your parents warn you about: he lures you with candy and then you're never heard from again.

I know this has been mentioned here before but the far more disturbing moment in Who Framed Roger Rabbit is the animated shoe death scene.
Seriously, watching that animated shoe slowly being dissolved in the dip, and it's terrified eyes and squeaking as it was killed has literally haunted me for years.
It's eyes man! That poor innocent shoe knew it was dying with no hope of a cartoon afterlife. It's terrified eyes!!

I remember the first time this article came out...it was titled "Comment Section" to the last article exaclty like it...wow, hope you made some serious cash copying and pasting from the work we did...great

good list.

What about "Lady And The Tramp"? That whole scene in the pound with those dogs singing that sad song and then you see a dog get taken away to be killed and you realize that's what's gonna happen to all those other dogs. Then at the end they make you think for a little while that Trusty the bloodhound got killed with Jock howling over his corpse. That was some sad stuff there.

@derek omg i still cry when i think of or see that scene.

Who here remembers a Disney (hard to believeback then it was Disney) movie called "Something Wicked This Way Comes"?

Atthe time it came out, creeped the living batshit hell right out of me!!!!!!

If you have not seen it see it, it seems to be a forgotten (and in my mind) under-rated creepy "kids" movie.

"In a world where Shia La Beouf is killed and sent to Transformers heaven and instantly resurrected, the impact of this scene has definitely been blunted"
I think it's more because Optimus Prime has died in every single continuity since... sometimes more than once.

Also, you should have linked to the warren destruction scene for the Watership Down entry. Jesus Christ that's nightmare fuel...

I bet Optimus's "death" in Transformers 2 had zero to no impact on kids today, unlike his demise in Transformers: The Movie. Goes to show the lengths of giving him a personality and spending more than 5 minutes with him would do.

I found the hall of heads far more creepy than the wheelers in Return to Oz....but still, it was very creepy.

Remember, many of those Dumbo animators were drinking during prohibition, when there was bathtub gin so bad it could kill you.

I definitely agree with the whole Secret Of NIHM thing as it definitely scared the hell out of me growing up. I'd like to add that, to whomever brought up the film "Felidae" when discussing the last list, thanks for disturbing me with animation even in my late 20's. The whole experimenting on/dissecting cats thing and looking pretty Don Bluth-ish to boot was pretty messed up, as the film pretty much was overall. I seriously didn't really think it would be that bad, but sometimes you just don't know until you see it for yourself, or most of it (on youtube), anyways. Needless to say I will never be watching Watership Down.

Artax's death traumatized a generation of kids, it seems. G'Mork used to freak me out too.

Also, after watching Labyrinth again as an adult... there are some freaky undercurrents there I never noticed as a kid!

aweseome. How about a list of depressing 'kids' songs?

How the hell is Judge Doom not higher on the list? HOW?!

I saw the movie once, maybe twice when I was little during the 90s, and I still can't think about that scene without whimpering a little. OH GOD THAT PICTURE OH GOD.

Most of the stuff on the list scared the crap out of me, but to whoever mentioned Dog Hell in All Dogs Go to Heaven and that freaky drunk skeleton in The Last Unicorn in the comments, I would just like to say that you've officially soul-punched me via the internet.

Congrats, and I hate you.

Oh, you bastard.

You had to bring up the Neverending Story, and I had to click the link.

"Artax, Artax!"

there is a scene in my neighbor totoro in which the younger sister goes missing and the villagers are dredging the lake looking for her. as a kid however i was most terrified by the bathtub scene from ghostbusters 2.

The first fifteen minutes of Pixar's Up featured some remarkably mature themes. I watched it with my two-year-old son, and I had damn near started bawling. I was really surprised that they actually wrote that in.

The movie for water ship down is more graphic than the book ,and the book was boring I read it will never read it again but the movie is quite traumatizing .

come on you can do better than this kick it up a notch none of these ever disturbed me! of course i have been reading Stephen king sense third grade!

Nice one!
This list hit close to much more than the previous one.

Most disturbing part of Wizard of Oz to me is the Lion getting terrified of the Wizard and running like shit straight through a giant glass window. It's so fucking extreme and they don't mention it after the scene fades out. Is it supposed to be funny? Nobody ever talks about that or the scene with the song about the Lion being a king nobody seems to remember where the Tin Man smashes a flower pot that doesn't belong to him to make it into a silly crown for the Lion. This stuff is psychotic.

Strangely enough, Return to Oz is the first movie we bootlegged with 2 VCRs when I was a kid, and I loved and watched the shit out of it daily. Wheelers are horrifying.

I thought all the action death was kick-ass in Transformers!! The disturbing part was Prime's paint turning extra crispy black to beat our skulls in about how super dead he is. Also, suddenly every robot has a mustache. What?

man, everyone's always going on about the neverending story and that horse dying. well, i think you guys nailed it with the pink elephant scene from dumbo. that shit was so creepy, the thought still frightens the bejesus out of me. easily the most fucked up movie scene from my childhood.

Am I the only one who found the Pink Elephants hysterical? My sister and I rolled around laughing the first time we saw it. It's one of my favorites. But now I know why all my friends freak out when I sing it.

I agree with everything else (though I still love NIMH). Artax is always heart-breaking but as someone already mentioned, it's a million times worse in the book, where he's a talking horse, telling his "little master" to hurry and save himself.

Okay, that scene in Labyrinth with those things that pulled their heads off and dance? Waaaaaaay scarier than the ballroom scene. The ballroom scene was just trippy, not scary.

Also, kudos on mentioning the Wheelers in Return to Oz. There should have been a mention for Mombie's Hall of Heads, too, though. When all the heads come awake, that is some seriously scary shit.

Anyone who finds the cyborgification scene in Superman III scarier than, say, any of the scenes with Richard Pryor in them needs to turn in their geek card, kid or not.

Whoa whoa whoa, what would be wrong with a fantasy land that constantly plays Bowie?? Quick, tell me everything you know about the man. Yeah, that's what I thought :roll:

More disturbing in Dumbo that Pink Elephants on Parade, which was nightmarish, to say the least, was when Dumbo's mom is in chains in the cage car. I was traumatized by the thought that someone could take my mom and lock her away from me. I see that scene today, with that major tear-jerker song, "Baby Mine," and I start bawling all over again, and I'm 56 fucking years old.

Here are 2 others to throw into consideration.

1. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: This movie terrified me as a kid. I am not sure, if it was really a kid's movie with all the underlying torture scenes in it but it get my vote for at least a solid top 10.

2. Graveyard of the fireflies: OK... I know this is Anime and it opens a whole new realm of possibilities in this category but as a cartoon, it was a realistic look at two orphans trying to survive in a post-war Japan. I found it to be very emotional and potentially traumatic to younger viewers.

I'm sorry...but someone remind me why the horse scene in never ending story is disturbing. It's a fucking horse!

I think Cannibal Holocaust was the most depressing kids movie ever...or my parents were just really really mean.

That robot scene from Superman III just brought back some repressed childhood memories...

Anyone see that Disney tv-movie with Mr. Boogedy? That shit scared me!

It looks like a slightly different Daily List is in order: "The(insert number here)Most Frightening, Disturbing, Or Just Plain Inappropriate Films Ever Mistakenly Marketed To Children" (it's a working title) These would be my picks, in no particular order:

1. Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

2. Return To Oz

3. The Dark Crystal

4. Legend

5. Watership Down (by reputation)

Um, I'm experiencing brain-lock, but you get the basic idea--the labors of studios and ad agencies who assume that animation and puppetry, so long as there's no cursing, automatically equal kiddie matinee fare.

Great list! So many excellent, totally screwed up moments from my childhood. I was curious, does anyone else remember FUZZBUCKET? That creepy little thing freaked me out.

Artex's death is kind of worse in the book....as he's a fully sapient character with actual speaking lines and such. Plus in the book *spoiler alert!* he STAYS dead. There is no great regeneration where everybody who died magically comes back.

I think I mentioned this last time, but...

TMNT: The Movie, with Shredder falling off a building, into a garbage truck, and being crushed by the compactor triggered by one Casey Jones.

Does anyone remember that Disney movie "Amy" where the deaf kid gets run over by the train? That scene always gave me nightmares.

There were a couple of scenes from The Last Starfighter that creeped me out: the clone or Beta Alex when he pulled off his head and repaired himself, and when that dude pulled his own eyeballs put and showed his real eyes to Alex who couldn't go anywhere because they were going hella fast in that car/ship.

his own eyeballs OUT

Dr. Seuss once made a live-action movie: "The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T". That's a scary movie for kids.

I always wondered how pissed that horse playing Artax after that scene was. The horse is clearly actually panicking from the wild look in his eyes as he's pulled under the swamp water.

And thank you for pointing out the one thing I still remember about the terribleness of Superman III: how much that scene absolutely terrified me as a child.

So, no one else was freaked out of their mind by the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang? How could this not be number one or at least awfully close to the top. ...no, no wait, number one. Definitely number one.

Why is it that the films with the scenes that disturbed me most as a child are also my favourite films ever?

Decent list...but seriously, You didn't have the boat scene from Will Wonka and the Chocolate factory?

That is still one of the most screwed up things I have ever seen in a kids movie. Also one of the best little songs in a kids movie as well!

That Boat scene would be my #1 disturbing moment in a kids movie by far.

The most disturbing scene of my childhood had to be in The Dark Crystal when the rest of the Skeksis turn on the just defeated Chamberlain and corner him and strip him.
I had probably blocked this from my memory completely until I saw it again recently, but seeing it again brought back that horrible feeling I had first time round when I must've been about 5 or 6.
It didn't seem to matter that the Chamberlain was such a wretched, conniving bastard but seeing him scream like that while being completely humiliated did not give me an ounce of satisfaction.

Did anybody mention the dark crystal? That creepy bird thing withering away in its bed or those huge beetle things were enough for me.

KIDS. You didn't even MENTION 'A mouse and his child.' OR 'Raggedy Anne and Andy a Musical Adventure'. The 2 MOST messed up childrens cartoons in their ENTIRETY. Most messed up. More messed up then Watership Down easily.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2PV7pOnmuE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OWdw1IwdYY

I didn't even remember NIMH existed until now. And the weird thing is, I remember wanting to watch it more than once as a kid. Granted, I watched the vid you posted, and I can honestly conclude that I had little understanding of what was really going on in those particular scenes as a child. And I don't think the old, red-eyed Gandalf rat man ever scared me. He's too nice and helpful to be scary.

But I must agree with #1. I didn't even see The Neverending Story until I was a little older, but that horse scene completely disturbed me. Other parts of the movie made me very uncomfortable, but I barely remember them, whereas I can remember that scene in vivid detail. ugh.

Oh, I remember watching NIMH, but I didn't know it was this film.
I remember the Roger Rabbit and the Neverending Story scenes very clearly.
The Neverending Story is a film I got upset with after reading the original novel.
But in the original novel the horse could talk. I guess, maybe that would have made it worse? To have him telling Atreyu to leave him and save himself?

I just saw Superman 3 on tv the other day and remembered being freaked out by that scene as a kid. I thought man that could've made it into that list I read on TR no long ago. You're reading my thoughts aren't you. You son of a bitch.

I think the entire movie the Labrynth counts as incredibly disturbing.
That movie terrifies me.

IN The never ending storey the horse made me sad but the dang wolf when he first appears and all you see are glowing eyes and teeth ....that gave me nightmares for days

What about the child catcher in Chitty-chitty Bang-Bang?
"I smell...children."
Dude still gives me shivers.

I'd have to add "Grave of the Fireflies" to this list. Seeing the fate of small children in post WWII bombing is enough to send you spiraling into depression.

Not a movie but twenty years on and just thinking about Whilomena the Whirligig Witch (and her damn cat) makes me want to curl up in a fetal position and scream the world away.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-KnZVseNnY

Hell even the thick accented hero got hisname from a mentally unbalanced Dublin tramp from the 30's

I'm amazed that the part in the second Unico movie with all the people being turned into blocks didn't make the list. God, I still remember seeing it the first time ever and running out of the room in terror.

And The Last Unicorn? Fuck that drunk skeleton and big, fiery bull. I almost pissed myself in fear when they first appeared.

dude the elephant one is like a bad acid trip.

Holy shit, +10 points for Irona reference. Oh wait, she was included in the animated TV show, wasn't she? Okay, +5 points, upgradable to +15 for any acknowledgement of the kindertraumatic Dr. N-R-Gee.

Its strange the things that stick with you from childhood. I recall all of these but Atrax was the worst. Hands down. Still remember seeing that vividly.

The Wheelers in Return to Oz are actually in the Oz novels too. Think it's in The Land of Oz.

Return to Oz combined the 2nd and 3rd books, but Dorothy isn't in an insane asylum.

I think Dorothy aging backwards is probably the most fucked up thing about it though. Judy Garland was 15 when she starred in the movie and the sequel starred an actual child.

you just made me watch Artax die again, you swines! >.

"And gratuitous, horrifying spandex-crotch?"

Awesome. Labyrinth totally made me lady-gay for David Bowie. Junk lady was damn scary.

Anyone remember the Jetsons movie? I vaguely remember there being the genocide of some alien race due to a Spacely Sprockets factory. I just remember thinking it was pretty heavy stuff for a kid's movie.

The queen in Disney's Snow White isn't exactly kid-friendly, y'know.

Good lists. Between this and the other, the only movie that has traumatized me, though, is "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory." I'd read the book and seen the movie. The book was freaky enough.

Saw the movie again for the first time last year. Now that I'm all grown up, same age as the movie, it's not quite as traumatic. Still a bit, though.

Also, remember the scene in The Little Mermaid when Ariel is turned into a human and nearly drowns? Or the witch in Snow White getting struck by lightning? VERY common scary scenes.